Nothing discovered yet has been shown to stop or slow down aging.
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Our monitoring has shown that drivers here ... are more disciplined: they slow down.
IVAN ZYBIN I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
MIKE MANSFIELD The planet where perfection reigns has not yet been discovered.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Impossible is only a possibility that has not yet been discovered
MICHELE AMITRANI The (Fed) may slow the pace of easing but they cannot stop yet.
STEVEN WOOD She told me the [Butler School] had been torn down.
LARRY MELMAN Nothing has been defined yet.
DOUG ELMETS Physical activity has been shown to be beneficial for health and aging in a number of areas. This em...
DALLAS ANDERSON Is there a pattern? Certainly, in recent weeks three helicopters have gone down. Nothing has been ru...
LAWRENCE DI RITA We've found no debris, nothing that has shown one way or another.
DANA WARR When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it dow...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY These can only be prevented with inhaled steroids. Nothing else has been shown to be as effective.
ROBERT NATHAN When you're playing a team like that indoors, it's a little hard to stop the momentum or to slow the...
BILL POTOCZNY America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds...
CARRIE P. MEEK Keep on raging - to stop the aging.
DALE CARNEGIE So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.
-- Robert Frost
JOHN GREEN Even if we can't reverse things, I think we still hope that we can slow down or even stop the progre...
MICHAEL ZIGMOND Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
JANE FONDA You can't stop the wear. But, you can slow it way down.
DONALD BACHMAN You can't stop it (the breathing), but you can slow it down,
DAVID MEREDITH Weed -- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother and nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.
PHIL DONAHUE Protests should slow down because the situation has been already handled through the democratic syst...
GENERAL SONTHI BOONYARATGLIN The protests must slow down because the situation has already been handled through a democratic syst...
GENERAL SONTHI BOONYARATGLIN Nothing has been decided yet! Don't be scared off, ... Here we go!
GERHARD SCHR A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I want to touch the parts of you no one else has touched. I want to own the piece of you that has ye...
RILEY MURPHY It's a flesh-and-blood animal that just has not been discovered yet. And I think we're getting close...
DARYL G. COLYER No one wants to slow down the recovery, but there has been no input from people in the affected comm...
ERIK OLSON Nothing has been talked about yet, we better just leave it at that.
MIKE HOLMGREN The problem is that some of the funding has been slow, or uneven.
STEPHANIE BUNKER What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It's been said that nothing can stop an idea whose time has come...but it's also equally important t...
DONALD LYNN FROST Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL 'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
ERIN MCKEAN It's possible, ... He's been spotted down there a couple of times. We have nothing on him yet, thoug...
ANTHONY CLARK America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
OSCAR WILDE America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up
OSCAR WILDE Our team has shown grit all year. We have been down but we haven't been out. We figure out ways to g...
MIKE BROWN When it's wet out people have to slow down, ... It appears (the Jeep) couldn't stop in time for what...
DON THOMPSON Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one h...
GEORGE CARLIN Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
C.S. LEWIS it has been shown off, concealed, styled, cut, trimmed, extended, straightened, waved, put up, let d...
DESMOND MORRIS The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whe...
DAN BUETTNER We are working on conceptual plans for the site, but nothing has been determined as yet.
RICHARD HIGGINS As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much ...
BEAR GRYLLS Ten seconds later, basically, all hell broke loose. The plane didn't stop at all. It didn't even slo...
EDDIE HO Nothing has been filed yet, but the information that I have is that they will be dropped.
BOB LAWRENCE Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.
KAREN ELIZABETH GORDON Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
OSCAR WILDE Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a mod...
WILL C. BARNES Impossible doesn’t exist, it’s merely a placeholder used to fill the space of something that has...
PATRICK RUSSELL MILES Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human vict...
VLADIMIR PUTIN I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
MADHURI DIXIT We don't have nothing to hold our heads down for. Tonight [the slow start] just caught up to us.
DARIUS HARGROVE Robert was nothing less than mocked.
GEOFFREY FIEGER There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
RICHARD PRYOR Lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer.
DEAN ORNISH It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou...
BEN SHAPIRO No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, ...
G. H. HARDY We had similar situations with the Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears and they responded quickly with o...
BILL BYRNE There is nothing in the market demand indicating that we need to slow down the ramp at Fab 36.
HANS DEPPE When doing sports... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.
JEANETTE WINTERSON We're trying to follow up some leads. We have nothing concrete down yet.
DOUG DODSON As we get older, everything slows down. The ability to hit the brake in a panic stop is going to slo...
BOB HENDERSON There really has not been anything that has made it to the market that has shown a true difference.
KELLY SMITH There's a feeling that enough has been done to slow the economy down and the next phase must be up, ...
STEPHEN WRIGHT There are gaps in his timeline that we are concerned about. Nothing outside of Michigan has been con...
DENNIS RICHARDSON It appears that my worst fears have been realized: we have made progress in everything yet nothing h...
DERRICK BELL Clearly there has been additional damage to the wreckage since it was discovered. It hasn't been pro...
PETER HESS Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears; / Yet slower yet, O faintly, gentle springs.
BEN JONSON It’s not the specter of aging that haunts me. Rather, it’s the far greater fear of having aged a...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not ye...
JULES VERNE With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quit...
MITCH HEDBERG Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL You can slow me down, but you will never be able to stop me. I will be the best and your fears will ...
KISHAN S CHAUHAN Robert believes in our system of justice, and he looks forward to his day in court. He's confident t...
ALLAN MAYER We don't want to hinder or slow down enlargement, ... find a position of solidarity.
JOSEP PIQUE It seems like when they play away from home they slow down their game. But slow or fast, we're going...
RYAN DIGGS There is no room to sit and wait for confirmation, once God has spoken, or once you discovered your ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.
ELIZABETH GILBERT But every day, too, we get one or two we can't find anywhere truly missing people, whose absence ...
HENRY YENNIE Every time I thought that, (Butler) would come down and make a great shot.
DEMOND GARTH Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It’s expensive, does more harm than good, and has been pr...
AMY POEHLER The prevailing method is to warn skiers with visual warnings, the bright orange, and they're suppose...
MICHAEL GROSS Octavia Butler has been a beacon for thousands of us. This award will continue her legacy making sur...
WALTER MOSLEY Mr. Matthew thankfully has been excluded as a suspect, ... He has been conclusively shown not to hav...
DAVID CHAPMAN My job is to let you know how to think about evidence that has been discovered,
KEITH INMAN Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional i...
DANIEL GOLEMAN Nothing has been decided yet where we will go, but if something happens, it will happen in the next ...
TORD GRIP The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as y...
OSCAR WILDE Stem cells are being used for anti-aging, and the University of Miami is doing a study about that to...
PETER NYGARD (Donations) slow down during the summer. I've only been here since the first of the year, but it has...
BETTY SMITH (Donations) slow down during the summer. I've only been here since the first of the year, but it has...
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been...
NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mist...
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SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER